Mary Hughes

Came to Canada with father etc... 1808.

Lived with her father and her unmarried brother William on Lot 92, Conc. 1 King twp. next to the Quaker Meeting House. She was one of the most active women in the Yonge Street Monthly Meeting, being assigned to numerous committees to carry out the business of the Society. She was the only one in her household to join the Children of Peace in 1812, and she may have moved in with one of her brothers in Sharon after the death of her father and the marriage of William. Sometime after 1819 she married Samuel Hughes. The marriage remained childless (she would have been in her mid-fifties when she married).

She is buried in the Children of Peace cemetery.